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Growing Data Storage Requirements

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current event by VnutZ on 09 March 2007, tagged as computing

As the world continues its digital revolution, the data requirements have grown exponentially. A recent study of Fortune 1000 companies reveal that IT administrators have seen data storage needs grow to more than a petabyte (1,000,000 gigabytes) in the past three years. "Lesser" Fortune 10000 companies typically need up to 100 terabytes of storage. Such data requirements represent a five-fold and two-fold increase respectively. Outside of business, analysts have determined the total storage requirement for the world's data in 2006 touched on 161 exabytes, up significantly from the 5 exabytes of data in 2003. The complete study, "The Expanding Digital Universe (PDF)," by the IDC is available on-line.

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Just Curious ... by VnutZ :: NR8

So how much data do you have on your home computers? I'm sitting on a little more than a quarter terabyte of data myself.

... and before you bash me, yes, I know that I replied to my own news.

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ZFS by galton :: NR5

Jeff Bonwick's ZFS was designed for precisely these volumes of storage. When announced in 2004 it was viewed as more of a research exercise than a deployable filesystem - I think these articles vindicate JB's predictions.

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